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Should there be a minimum reputation required to write an article?

22-Nov-23 21:49

In the user's messages list:

On the message itself:

The message in question[^].

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GKP199221-Nov-23 20:51

GKP1992

21-Nov-23 20:51

Just wondering if there should be a minimum required repo points before you can write an article.
Could limit the spamming.

Re: Should there be a minimum reputation required to write an article?

Richard Deeming21-Nov-23 21:29

Sub/super script markdown

21-Nov-23 21:29

Not sure that would work: you can't post anything until you have sufficient reputation, which you gain by posting things and having them up-voted. Laugh | :laugh:

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k505421-Nov-23 6:58

k5054

21-Nov-23 6:58

Is there a markdown encoding for Sub/Super scripts? The html tags <sub> and <sup> work fine, but I'm sure I saw somewhere was using ^1^ for ¹. Even if there's not something like that available, can a note be added to the Markdown tips on sub/super script, for the next time I can't remember them? Smile | :)

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Please stop with the pointless QA edits already!

Richard Deeming6-Nov-23 1:44

Re: Please stop with the pointless QA edits already!

6-Nov-23 1:44

This is getting ridiculous. It's becoming increasingly difficult to see which questions need answering, which questions have been dragged back to the top in an attempt to "bump" them, which have been dragged back by a spammer, and which are there because they've had trivial and minor edits made by a CodeProject editor. D'Oh! | :doh:

Eg:

Is it really worth resurrecting a question from a week ago just to add pointless <pre lang="text">...</pre> tags around something that shouldn't have <pre> tags at all?! If anything needed changing, the <pre> tags around the "NO GOOGLE" sentence should have been removed.

If you're going to edit a question to "improve" the standard of English used, then please actually improve it! Replacing "i showing only" with "I show only" rather than "it show only" (or better: "it only shows") simply reinforces the fact that you're not actually reading the text you're "correcting".

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Chris Maunder6-Nov-23 2:59

Re: Please stop with the pointless QA edits already!

6-Nov-23 2:59

Can you send me a link to a question that's been badly edited?

cheers
Chris Maunder

Richard MacCutchan6-Nov-23 3:05

Richard MacCutchan

6-Nov-23 3:05

It's not that they have been badly edited, it is that the edits are totally unnecessary. Here is another one that was posted 13 days ago, and has been editied today, just to change "i" to "I". So now it is at the top of the queue, and thus pushing more active qestions further down.

ERROR:"the option setting 'android.experimental.testoptions.emulatorsnapshots.maxsnapshotsfortestfailures=0' is experimental"[^].

[edit]
And this How do insert an image in jasper reports. The output format is PDF.I am using iReports as designing tool.[^]

[/edit]

Re: Please stop with the pointless QA edits already!

Richard Deeming6-Nov-23 3:36

Re: Please stop with the pointless QA edits already!

6-Nov-23 3:36

First screen-shot is this one[^].

Second one is the question[^] RMC linked to in his edit.

Here's one from 28th October, edited yesterday to add a "." at the end:
What is the answer of this question? Explain please[^]

29th October, edited yesterday to remove the "Hello to everyone." at the start and change some white-space in the code block:
Do not repeat the number in the database[^]

29th October, edited yesterday to change "get" to "gets" and add one comma:
Scrape data and send updates in android[^]

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- Homer

Richard Deeming6-Nov-23 3:52

Re: Please stop with the pointless QA edits already!

6-Nov-23 3:52

How do I change the color of messageboxes in my win32 application?[^]

25th October, edited 2 minutes ago:

Removed a hyphen from "any-one";
Changed "win32" to "Win32";
Changed "c++" to "C++";
Changed "googled" to "Googled";

I appreciate that some questions have egregious formatting or language problems and can benefit from being tidied up. But dragging old questions back up the list just to make minor edits like this, which don't in any way aid the readability of the question, seems pointless.

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Greg Utas6-Nov-23 4:39

Greg Utas

6-Nov-23 4:39

Maybe a question shouldn't be bumped after editing unless done by the original author, or something like that.

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Re: Please stop with the pointless QA edits already!

Richard MacCutchan6-Nov-23 4:57

Richard MacCutchan

6-Nov-23 4:57

But all this editing is totally pointless. The questions are all clear enough to be investigated so none of the changes make any useful difference.

Re: Please stop with the pointless QA edits already!

RedDk6-Nov-23 6:34

RedDk

6-Nov-23 6:34

I might be wrong or I might have complained about the "revision" not being available because of faulty browsing (I have never updated FF on my current box (2018 easily). Ever!) but doesn't it occur to anyone else that the report should be centered on the "revisor" and not the post itself?

Isn't your issue with the editor? Tell him to lay off then. Surely the moderators forum would be the space in which to conduct the voir dire and from there you could prosecute the offender most easily.

So when is my trial date? WTF | :WTF:

Re: Please stop with the pointless QA edits already!

Richard MacCutchan6-Nov-23 9:33

Richard MacCutchan

6-Nov-23 9:33

RedDk wrote:
Isn't your issue with the editor?

Yes, but since the person in question is a staff member, it needs a decision at CodeProject management level.

Re: Please stop with the pointless QA edits already!

RedDk6-Nov-23 12:38

RedDk

6-Nov-23 12:38

.. ah, yes! She is isn't she?. From far off though that satchel looks like a cigar so you can appreciate the confusion I was still experiencing even while posting this rejoinder. D'Oh! | :doh:

Re: Please stop with the pointless QA edits already!

Sean Ewington6-Nov-23 10:13

Sean Ewington

6-Nov-23 10:13

A lot of times (and in specific scenarios), I delete rather than edit, to avoid this bothersome scenario. As Quick Answers works now, minor edits cannot be applied like this, so you will no longer see minor edits like this.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Re: Please stop with the pointless QA edits already!

Nelek6-Nov-23 8:06

Nelek

6-Nov-23 8:06

Maybe could be an idea to focus the CP-Editors to the publications and leave the Q&A to us users?

I can imagine there are enough "wrong format" flags to be more or less continously busy.

M.D.V.

If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Only an observation ...

0x01AA5-Nov-23 3:52

0x01AA

5-Nov-23 3:52

Here I upvoted: Editor3D: A Windows.Forms Render Control with interactive 3D Editor in C#[^]

And it shows now:

Re: Only an observation ...

Chris Maunder5-Nov-23 9:15

Coral module on docker needs curl

5-Nov-23 9:15

Yes, I saw that the other day and was about to dig in but it looks like a caching issue that's resolved.

Thanks for letting me know.

cheers
Chris Maunder

VavoVavo1-Nov-23 11:01

VavoVavo

1-Nov-23 11:01

Please add curl in the docker container as it is needed by the install script for the coral module

Re: Coral module on docker needs curl

Richard Deeming1-Nov-23 22:36

Has the articles’ layout been modified?

1-Nov-23 22:36

You have posted this in the forum for reporting bugs and suggestions for the CodeProject website. As such, your message makes no sense.

If your message relates to a specific article, then post it in the comments section at the bottom of that article.

If it relates to the CodeProject API, then post it in the CodeProject API forum[^].

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- Homer

FredAu28-Oct-23 23:41

FredAu

28-Oct-23 23:41

In the past few weeks the articles’ layout looks slightly different; before there were additional information and quick access links on the Articles left-hand side pane, now there are only three links.
No comments have been posted in this regard except a reference about “articles rating graph not working properly” about the same time I noticed this discrepancy.

Below there is a a image of ‘Before’ i.e. how the articles were laid out (borrowed from one of the forum answers) and an ‘After’ image of the same article i.e. current layout. Red arrows pointing to the pane in question.

All articles show the same behavior.

Current environs: Win10 - tried with both Edge and Google as well as a portable Firefox browser - identical results.

BEFORE

AFTER

Chris Maunder30-Oct-23 3:30

30-Oct-23 3:30

Yes, the layout has changed

cheers
Chris Maunder

Jo_vb.net30-Oct-23 6:21

Jo_vb.net

30-Oct-23 6:21

If this is by design then I think it was a bad decision to remove the link for jumping to the comments Thumbs Down | :thumbsdown:

Chris Maunder30-Nov-23 5:20

30-Nov-23 5:20

It's still there

cheers
Chris Maunder

Richard Deeming30-Nov-23 21:47